KEN BOLTON + JOHN JENKINS
Nutters without Fetters
A6 32pp ISBN 0-9580367-0-5 (updated ISBN: 978-0-9580367-0-2)
(cover illustration by Ken Bolton)
$9.90 including postage
John Jenkins and Ken Bolton are both mad. Even so they have managed to publish a lot of books. And all of these have been terrific. Which goes to prove that, whatever they say against him, in this respect Freud was right - Art and Madness, they connected.
Their previous works together are a book of poems, Airborne Dogs, (Brunswick Hills Press, 1988), the verse novel The Ferrara Poems (EAF, 1989) - the basis for the movie of the same name - and their study of Lacan, the aphoristic and meditative the Gutman Variations (Little Esther, 1993).
A second novel, in prose, Bye Bye Blackbird awaits publication, as does another verse novel, Gwendolyn Windswept (serialised in Otis Rush). Both are suitable for film, and the authors are incredibly photogenic, full of soulful, moody presence,. Imagine Byron in the movie of Childe Harold - it could happen now, Bolton & Jenkins in Gwendolyn Windswept coming to a theatre near you!
Meanwhile... read the poems.
J.Jenkins & K.Bolton (Photo: Mark Thompson, Institute of Backyard Studies)